Hartford Foundation Awards $1 Million for Local Homeless Programs

January 31, 2015

The has announced grants totaling more than $1 million to six Hartford-area nonprofit organizations working to assist the homeless.

Designed to leverage $200,000 in municipal funds and $40,000 in private funds, the grants will help more than a thousand individuals and families who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless through rapid re-housing, eviction prevention/landlord negotiation assistance, and shelter programs. Grant recipients include ($174,000), ($220,000), the ($113,000), ($180,000), the ($30,000), and the ($93,000).

"These grants support both short-term and long-term strategies to address homelessness," said Judy Rozie-Battle, vice president for program at the foundation. "Many families and individuals of modest means are still unable to afford current rents or spend an untenable amount of their income to secure even substandard housing. Funding will allow organizations to continue services, expand services, or test out new collaborative and collective impact models of addressing the issue of ending homelessness."